WELCOME--MAIN PAGE: Those who pierced him

Still Editing

QUESTION RECEIVED:

"I am busy reading Revelation again. What did it mean that even those who pierced him will see him?

Rev.1:7

My Reply:

“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matt.25:40)

“Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me” (Luke 10:16)

"Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually." (1Cor.12:27)

From the foregoing scriptures, we see that Jesus is unified as one with his body members

(1Cor.6:17; John 17:21,23; 15:7).

Jesus is the head (Col.1:18) and just as with human anatomy, there are parts to his spiritual body that are individual anointed ones (1Cor.12:12,15-17,21).

1Cor.12:26 reads; " If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it."

When a faithful anointed body member suffers, the head, Jesus, is unified with his body and suffers with it. It is a case of complete unity and empathy.

We understand that a part of human anatomy, is the rib-cage. Jesus was pierced between the ribs up into his heart. This has spiritual meaning as well. We may want to keep in mind that Adam's rib was the matrix from which Eve was formed (Gen.2:22,23; Eph.5:25,27; Rev.21:2).

At Daniel 7:5 we read;

“And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and *it had three ribs in its mouth* between its teeth. It was told, ‘Get up and eat your fill of flesh!’

These three ribs that are devoured by this symbolic bear are also mentioned at Dan.7:24:

"The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; *he will subdue three kings."*

We are told that the king to arise after the ten, is "different". How so?

Dan.11:21 tells us the difference.

Unlike the other kings, this final ruler "has not been given the honor of royalty".

Unlike those anointed by God to be God's royal priests and kings (1Pet.2:9; Rom.15:15,16; Rev.1:6),

the arrogant horn speaking boastfully, is not anointed. Yet it has been given <(Dan.8:24) the authority and power to devour, subdue, humiliate, uproot, cause to fall, and pluck out, ...three horns/kings that are genuinely royal/anointed.

This is the same collective "man of lawlessness" that takes his judgment seat over God's royal priesthood (2Thess.2:4), symbolically trampling them beneath his feet

(Rev.13:7; Dan.7:19,20,21,23,24,25; 8:9,10,11,12,13,17; Rev.13:8; Dan.11:16,31,32,33,34,35,36,37; 2Thess.2:4).

Dan.8:24,25; 2Thess.2:8

He is not from among God's anointed. He does not belong to spiritual Israel. He is a spiritual Gentile (Luke 21:20; Rev.11:2) (LINK) From his position of authority over the anointed, he desolates the holy place/God's temple (Matt.24:15; Mark 13:14).
How and where did this Gentile identity get this power and authority over God's anointed priesthood?

Prophecy tells us that a false prophet who IS an anointed leader/spiritual Jew, gave that Gentile collective a lying image of being representatives of an organization that is portrayed as being directed by God's spirit. (Rev.13:11,12,13,14,15) (see: LINK).

Link: Who-is-the-Man-of-Lawlessness?

--Link: abomination-causing-desolation

----Link: should-jw-elders-replace-gods-anointed?

------Link: https://pearl-disgustingthing.blogspot.com/

--------Link: trample-how-does-it-happen?

----------Link: the-greatest-tribulation-why?

So we are learning about a "king"/horn, that subdues/humiliates 3 kings. This occurs when the eighth king/"man of lawlessness" reigns over, dominates and judges God's Temple priesthood (Rom.8:33; 1Cor.6:2,3).

(2Thess.2:3,4; 1Pet.2:5; 1Cor.3:16; Dan.8:11; Luke 21:24; Rev.13:10; Col.2:8).

As regards Daniel's 4th beast at Dan.7:3,7,8,

it is the same as the sea beast of Rev.13:1 and this man of lawlessness.

Dan.7:8,20 reads

"8 While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a man...

(1Sam.16:7; Isa.2:11; 5:15; Prov.6:16,17; 30:12,13; Rev.13:5,6,7)

...and a mouth that spoke boastfully. 20 I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and about the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn that looked more imposing than the others and that had eyes and a mouth that spoke boastfully."

These three anointed kings do not remain powerless (Rev.16:12)...

"The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to *prepare the way for the kings from the East/rising sun/morning star."*

After Babylon's water (deceptive teaching from Satan -Rev.12:15; 16:13,14; 1Tim.4:1) is dried up for those 3 kings, they cross that river successfully.

They become the 3 messengers of God, found at Rev.14:6,7,8,9,10,11,12,15,17,18. (LINK)

~ ~ ~

So, to get to your question directly after that introduction;

Those who pierce Jesus, are "killing" his body/bride members, represented by the two witnesses...

Rev.11:

"7 Now when they (two witnesses) have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. 8 *Their bodies will lie in the public square* of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified."

Notice in verse 8, that their death is a public spectacle.

This brings us back to your scripture, "even those who pierced him will see him".

The revelation of the identity of the faithful slaves of Jesus (Rom.8:19; Mal.3:18; Rev.22:19c) (and also the revelation of the wicked slaves) are due to be revealed (Rev.20:12). (See: LINK)

Jesus and his Father will accomplish this at the right time

(Isa.11:12; 18:3; Matt.24:16; Eze.36:8; John 10:3,4; Isa.62:10; 35:8; 30:21; Mal.3:1,2,3; Isa.2:2,3; 60:1,2,3)

(Rev.3:9; Isa.49:23; 54:17; 62:4; 51:11,12,16; Deut.32:36; Ps.37:6; Eze.36:15; 34:29; Zeph.3:19; Jer.33:9)